I don't think that's possible (I'd be curious to see otherwise). It's my understanding that there would be no way to map the line segments to a specific font (certainly not once you've altered them). You will probably need to manually change things, or throw out part (or all) of it and start from scratch.
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Michael ToddMay 27 '10 at 17:33

do you know if i can at least detect wich font is used in the outlined object?
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Pai GaudêncioMay 27 '10 at 18:02

Hmm, cool. Does this OCR feature really work with vector paths, not just raster image data?
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Matt M.Aug 7 '11 at 23:13

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If it doesn't work for vector paths you can rasterize them youself. I wanted to OCR outline text in Acrobat but Acrobat's OCR first rasterized it to ~72dpi which looked awful and didn't OCR very well either. I opened the PDF in Illustrator, saved to PNG at 1200dpi, and OCR's in Acrobat and it worked great. I used the ClearScan option which builds a font from the OCRd letters and discards the raster so the file size was reasonable too.
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User5910Feb 19 '13 at 2:27